Adolf Mahr Research Paper

“To what extent did Adolf Mahr promote Nazi Party activities in Ireland during the inter-war years; 1927-1939?”

Introduction
Adolf Mahr was born in 1887 in Austria. He was married to Maria van Bemmelen who was from Holland. Their son Gustav was born in 1922 while they lived in Germany, and also their second child Hilde who was born in 1926; they had two younger daughters also. Ingrid, and Brigit, born in 1929, and 1933, both born in Ireland. Following independence in Ireland in 1922, Irish citizens with a good education had left Ireland for Britain and continental Europe where salaries were higher. The Irish government was forced to advertise abroad for a lot of jobs, mostly in continental Europe as hiring British managers at the time
Their meetings were first held in in a German social club behind the court laundry in Dublin. Another place frequented by the party for meetings was the Kilmacurragh Park Hotel, in Wicklow, and was run by a fellow German, Charles Budina. The German association was now numbering about five hundred people. Mahr became the first, ’Ortensgruppenleiter’, or local group leader. Maria Mahr did not join the Nazi Party. The branch was under the leadership of Otto Bene, who was leader of the British Nazi branch, but in 1935 the Irish branch detached themselves from the British branch so as not to offend the new de Valera government. The same year Mahr joined the ’Auslandorganisation’, (AO), which promoted trade links between Germany and other countries. The function of the (AO), although it wasn’t a secret organisation, was to watch and report any political developments in the country and to monitor Germans living in the country. Every district leader including Mahr had to write a monthly report on the current political situation in the country they were in, these were sent to the foreign office in